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[def. dictionary.com]

noun

a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec).

Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
Increasing numbers of or strengths of hurricanes are typically cited by climate alarmists as evidence of human-caused climate change or global warming.  However, there is no evidence that increasing global temperatures have any affect on hurricane strength or numbers.  An index of hurricane energy is the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), which accounts for both the number and intensity of hurricanes.  The ACE index indicates that not only has the accumulated energy not increased over the past several decades, it appears to have decreased slightly.  Since the amount of carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warming, has monotonically increased during this same period, one must conclude that hurricanes must be disconnected from climate change.

The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART ONE

Robert W. Endlich

Author’s Note: This is Part ONE of a multi-part post.

INTRODUCTION
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James Delingpole is an English writer who has written extensively about the allegedly human-caused, CO2-fueled global warming alarm. Wikipedia calls his writing “climate change denial.” But, Delingpole’s recent Substack post, “Valencia: Man Made Climate Change is REAL  Or: Why I No Longer Talk to Climate Sceptics” seems to me, at least, enough of a change in Delingpole’s thought and writing process that I call it his “flawed conversion.”

One of Delingpole’s books is ”Watermelons, The Green Movement’s True Colors,” in which he correctly characterizes the Global Warming Alarmist movement as allegedly Green (conservation-aligned) on the outside, but (Communist) Red on the inside.

So Delingpole’s 5 November 2024 Substack post changes that. James now says that aircraft-generated contrails, which he (and other ignorant and/or deluded individuals) now calls Continue reading “The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART ONE”

The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART TWO

Robert W. Endlich

Author’s Note:  This is Part TWO of a Two-Part post.

James Delingpole’s new belief, as he writes on Substack, concerning his book WATERMELONS is

“In the original version, I claimed that man-made climate change wasn’t real. Of course it is, though.  Look at Valencia…Or, indeed, look at North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. Or Florida after Hurricane Milton.”

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And

“…This is what chemtrails look like, you morons!”

And

“…What I find particularly interesting, as a veteran combatant of the climate wars, is the reluctance of my old, climate skeptical comrades to acknowledge the role of chemtrails, the use of Directed Energy Weapons and such like in generating extreme weather events.”

STRENGTH OF HURRICANES HELENE AND MILTON, AGAIN

Let’s delve into James Delingpole’s notion that the power of 2024’s Continue reading “The Flawed Conversion of James Delingpole from Climate Skeptic to now Alarmist? PART TWO”

TIME Magazine’s 2022 Feature Article, “Earth, Inc” …

“Ignorance Posing as Journalism”  

Robert W. Endlich

Once again, an old magazine in a doctor’s office waiting room was fertile ground for this month’s topic, “TIME Magazine’s 2022 feature article, ‘Earth, Inc’ …Ignorance Posing as Journalism.”

TIME’s 25 Apr/ 2 May 2022 print edition is the source of an absurd article on the alleged climate crisis, supposed journalist-experts waxing, in what they think is eloquent prose, the proclamation that a human-caused, CO2-fueled ‘climate crisis’ is upon us.  In this feature, they write,

“For better or worse, corporations are more involved than ever in how the world handles the climate crisis.”

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The puffery of journalist self-importance starts with a leading editorial by Edward Felsenthal, a Princeton Grad, TIME Editor-in-Chief and CEO, who announces a new TIME division, CO2, bringing

“a climate action program…to help guide every sized business, including ours, in becoming net (CO2 emission) zero and nature positive.”

The article itself is written by self-proclaimed Climate Expert Justin Worland, a Harvard History major who among countless others in Government, The Academy, and now in seemingly overwhelming numbers Continue reading “TIME Magazine’s 2022 Feature Article, “Earth, Inc” …”

Sierra Club’s Ignorance Revealed in the Winter 2021 Editorial

Robert W. Endlich

 A couple of months ago, while waiting in the doctor’s office, I happened upon the Winter 2021 edition of Sierra, magazine of the Sierra Club; the lead editorial, “The New Abnormal” by editor Jason Mark caught my eye, and I read it.  I was  expecting  global  warming  ignorance  and  was  not  disap-

Ahh, climate change not global warming (image by pixabay)

pointed by Jason Mark’s prose.  Jason Mark gets to his points quickly:

“Twenty twenty-one was the year that the climate crisis became unavoidable. With any luck (if you can call it that), in hindsight this will be seen as the year when Americans finally, belatedly, came to understand the severity of the crisis. The evidence has been impossible to ignore: a freakish winter deep freeze that shut down much of Texas, another horrific fire season in the West, a historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, a spate of deadly floods in the South quickly followed by Hurricane Ida—a storm so powerful it ended up killing dozens of people in the Northeast, more than a thousand miles from where it made landfall.”…”The alarm bells are clanging.”

So, Marks thinks unusual weather is “freakish” and “evidence” of human-caused CO2-fueled global warming, and that our use of fossil fuels and the Continue reading “Sierra Club’s Ignorance Revealed in the Winter 2021 Editorial”

A New Look at NOAA’s Alleged Cat 5 Strength for 2018’s Hurricane Michael

‘More evidence that Hurricane Michael was definitely NOT a Category FIVE storm at landfall.’

Robert W. Endlich
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In late September 2022 Category Four Hurricane Ian struck southwest Florida bringing death and destruction to southwest Florida. Ian’s arrival and wind damage spurred me to take another look at when 2018’s Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle of Florida, and NOAA’s 2019 declaration that Michael was a Category Five storm at landfall.

This is my new look at Hurricane Michael’s winds and NOAA’s 2019 report. Continue reading “A New Look at NOAA’s Alleged Cat 5 Strength for 2018’s Hurricane Michael”